Sugar-bowl



(No Model.)

J. T. BOND.

SUGAR BOWL.

Patented Apr. 10,1883.

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JOSEPH T. BOND, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUGAR-BOWL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,350, dated April 10, 1883.

Application filed March 7, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH 'l. Bonn, of Chelsea, in the county ofSuflolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sugar-Bowls, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical per-pective view of a silver or earthen sugar-bowl embodying my improvement; Fig. 2, a like view of a glass bowl; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section, and Fig. 4 a top plan view, of the bowl with the cover removed.

Likeletters of reference indicate correspond ing parts in the different figures of the drawm s.

fl/1y invention relates to the class of sugarbowl usually employed for domestic purposes; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more desirable article of this character is produced than is row in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, A represents the body of the sugar-bowl, and B the cover, which may be of ordinary construction, except as hereinafter described.

. Near the bottom of the bowl, on one side of the same, there is an opening, 0, for receiving the sugar-spoon, and arranged at either side of this opening, within the bowl, thereis a wall, :0. These walls rest on the bottom of the bowl and converge toward the center of the same, but do not meet, a space or inner opening, i, being left between them through which the spoon may be passed. The walls 00 are joined at their upper edges by the covering or inwardly-inclined roof m, and arranged horizontally near the inner edge of the covering, or under the eaves of the roof there is a down- .wardly-projectin g bar, d.

are two arms or hooks, f, adapted to receive and hold the detachable door D. In Fig. 1' the door for the opening 0 is represented as removed, and in Figs. 2 and 3 as in position, the door in Fig. 2 being of glass and showing the interior of the bowl. The lower portion or edge, a, of the opening 0 is curved, being designed to correspond with the curvature of the under side of the bowl of the sugar-spoon, so that any sugar adhering to that part of the spoon will be scraped ofl as the spoon is withdrawn; but the sides and top of the opening may be straight, if desired.

The object of the bardis to strike or scrape the surplus sugar from the spoon as it is withdrawn from the bowl, and thereby prevent the waste which frequently occurs when thesugar is dipped out of the bowl in the ordinary manner.

I do not confine myself to having the walls or a: converge or the roof or covering m incline, as shown, as the walls may be arranged in parallelism and the roof or covering level, if preferred. Neither do I confine myself to any special form of opening 0, except in so far as relates to the portion a, or to any special form of door D or method of hanging the same.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. Asugar-bowl adapted to receive the spoon at or near its base in removing the sugar, substantially as set forth.

2. A sugar-bowl having the opening 0, walls or w, and inclined cover-m, arranged substantially as described.

3. In a sugar-bowl substantially such as described, the bar (1 for striking or scraping the spoon as it is withdrawn from the bowl, substantially as set forth.

4. A sugar bowl having an opening, 0, through its side near the bottom, said opening being provided with the inwardly-projecting walls or guards a: a: and covering m, and having its lower part, a, rounded to conform with the shape of the spoon, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH T. BOND.

Witnesses G. A. SHAW, L. J. WHITE. 

